“Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook?
Or press down his tongue with a cord?

For they have fled from the swords,
From the drawn sword, from the bent bow
And from the press of battle and grief of war.

Further, take an iron plate and place it as an iron wall between you and the city, and set your face toward it so that it is under siege, and besiege it. This is a sign to the house of Israel.

“Behold, I am weighted down beneath you
As a cart that is weighted down when it is full of sheaves.

“Their horses are swifter than leopards
And keener than [hungry] wolves in the evening,
Their horsemen come galloping,
Their horsemen come from far away;
They fly like an eagle swooping down to devour.

from that time when one came to a grain heap expecting twenty measures, there would be only ten; and when one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty measures, there would be only twenty.